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...pair of studies by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health has found that the ban on marketing cigarettes to children has proved ineffective at curbing tobacco advertisements in non-print media, and that tobacco companies are adding nicotine to chewing tobacco in order to make smokeless tobacco more addictive...
...studies—by School of Public Health professors Howard K. Koh and Gregory N. Connolly, and researcher Hillel R. Alpert—examine the state of the American tobacco industry in the wake of the 1998 settlement that included a $200-billion payment by tobacco companies and a ban on marketing cigarettes to teens...
...first study, which was published in the journal Health Affairs, found that the 1998 agreement between four tobacco companies and 46 state attorneys general effectively impeded the industry’s targeting of youth in print advertising...
...researchers measured spending on and exposure to magazine advertising for cigarettes and other tobacco products, and cigarette and smokeless tobacco preferences among youth and adults...
They found that while the settlement was effective in curtailing youth exposure to print media advertisements for cigarettes, that it was less effective when it came to reducing exposure to cigarettes through other media, or reducing exposure to other tobacco products...